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Public Record Law School Publications Winter 12-1-2006 2006 Winter Public Record Loyola Law School - Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/public_record Repository Citation Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, "2006 Winter Public Record" (2006). Public Record. 15. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/public_record/15 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Public Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Winter 2006 New Board President Silverman Aims to Boost Alumni Involvement Ami Silverman ‘87 has been consistently active in the Loyola alumni community — she attended every Grand Reunion since 1983 and every golf tournament since 1986. She has mentored students since she graduated, helped recruit applicants and spoke on panels for the Office of Career Services. A member of the Alumni Association Board of Governors since 2001, she also served as its vice president and treasurer. Silverman is well-prepared for her next position with the group — president. “My priorities for the coming year are to continue to emphasize programs to strengthen For New Chaplain, Loyola is the Loyola alumni community and to foster appreciation for our graduates,” says Silverman. That includes overseeing the planning of long- running events like the Grand Reunion and the Latest Stop on Journey of Service Bob Cooney Golf Tournament. Silverman will also play a major role in the Alumni Association’s outreach to current students, which includes the mentoring program, a reception for graduating Father Kenneth Rudnick is a Renaissance man whose path to becoming students, goodie bags for first-year students during finals, financial assistance and more. Loyola Law School’s chaplain was anything but direct. Before joining the Silverman hopes to increase participation in Jesuits, he was in management at a major pharmaceutical company, but alumni gatherings. “I want to encourage more alumni and students to become involved in law was searching for something more fulfilling. school events to support our Loyola family,” she said. “The Board will continue to assist the admissions and placement offices, and will work on improving how it uses the Internet to com- “I thought of higher education immediately. I always municate with alums.” loved the academic rhythm of the year,” he says. “I also Upcoming Religion and the Law Programs thought about service. I reflected on what that meant: Silverman’s duties include speaking at the Law you put education and service together and you come School’s annual swearing-in ceremony for the up with Jesuit.” Thursday, January 18 state bar, an act she relishes because it “provides St. Thomas More Law Day a seamless bridge between law school and After a year of prayer, Rudnick answered his calling. ‘real life’ for our students.” She praises the He was accepted into the Jesuit order and ordained Mass and dinner in the Student Lounge will be Association’s board for its hard work, saying, in 1990. His studies ultimately led him to Fordham followed by a presentation by the Hon. Ming Chin, “My fellow Board members are remarkable University, where he earned a PhD in epistemology. associate justice, California Supreme Court. Patrick and talented people from all areas of practice, He also holds master’s degrees in theology and divinity. Lynch, Esq., of O’Melveny & Myers, will receive the committed to furthering the prestige of our law Ignatian Medallion and the Hon. Frederick J. Lower, Jr. school and our profession,” she says. “I hope to Rudnick served as dean of Gonzaga University when the will be presented with the St. Thomas More Medallion. be at least as successful as my predecessors, and school rose to national prominence when it reached will continue the programs they began and the regional finals of the 1999 NCAA tournament. He is remain open to new ways to achieve our goals.” thrilled with his most recent transition. “I am very pleased Tuesday, February 13 to be at Loyola,” he says. “I wish to serve this community, Law and Catholic Tradition Dinner Silverman is a senior trial specialist with the its faculty, alumni, students and staff.” Villanova Law School Dean Mark Sargent will present National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), where she has worked for 19 years. She is a member of Rudnick, who joined Loyola this semester, is already “The Meaning of the ‘Preferential Option for the Poor’ the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles making an impact on campus. He holds Mass at least for Law and Social Policy” in the Student Lounge. and the Los Angeles Orphanage Junior Guild, three times a week in the Chapel of the Advocate. He among other organizations. Prior to her tenure also presides over the popular First Friday Forum series, Friday, February 2, March 2 and May 4 at the NLRB, Silverman was a law clerk which brings sought-after speakers to campus to discuss First Friday Forums at the Times-Mirror Company and a judicial contemporary religious issues. Off campus, Rudnick has extern in the California Court of Appeal for an eclectic mix of pastimes: listening to jazz, following First Friday Forums begin with Mass at 7:30 am in the Second Appellate District. the Oakland Raiders and cooking. the Chapel of the Advocate, followed by a lecture and continental breakfast from 8 – 9 am in Donovan Hall. D. HAPPY HOUR – August 17, 2006 Direct Examination Daily Grill in downtown Los Angeles EVENTS E. GOLF TOURNAMENT – September 17, 2006 Coyote Hills Golf Course in Fullerton F. SANTA ANA ALUMNI LUNCHEON September 21, 2006, Nieuport 17 Restaurant in Tustin Helen E. Zukin, a civil litigator in private practice, was appointed to the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. WRAP-UP LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL G. SAN DIEGO ALUMNI LUNCHEON CONGRATULATES ALUMS NAMED ONE 1985 Kevin G. Ennis was named chair of Richards, Watson & September 28, 2006, University Club in San Diego OF CALIFORNIA’S TOP NEUTRALS Gershon’s public law department in its LA office. Jerry Giaquinta will head the San Francisco office of the Abernathy MacGregor Group. NEW YORK ALUMNI RECEPTION – October 19, 2006 Jayne (Taylor) Kacer was appointed assistant dean of student affairs A. SANTA BARBARA ALUMNI BBQ – July 29, 2006 Free Market Global in New York City Hon. Burtan Katz ‘63 at Chapman University School of Law. Home of Mrs. & Hon. Thomas Anderle, Santa Barbara Michael Moorhead ‘75 H. VENTURA ALUMNI LUNCHEON – October 27, 2006 Judith Ryan ‘70 1986 Gisselle Acevedo was named president and CEO of Para Los B. CLASS OF 1956 REUNION BRUNCH – August 6, 2006 Spanish Hills Country Club in Ventura Niños. Natasha Roit’s debut novel, The Oregon Project, was published. Law School Campus She is a sole practitioner in Malibu. I. HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS: SHADOWS FROM THE C. LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL NIGHT AT DODGER NIGHT PAST? A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE? – November 15, 2006 1964 Nelson L. Atkins of Atkins & Evans was honored at the 1987 Sandra Gordon joined Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & John M. Langston Bar Association’s 15th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner Reed in Florida as of counsel. David L. Rukstalis, Jr. was admitted to August 14, 2006, Dodger Stadium Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and Silent Auction. Tom Girardi hosts a weekly radio broadcast, the US Supreme Court Bar. Barbara Ullman Schwerin was named Champions of Justice, on KRLA, which features special guests including CEO of the Maple Counseling Center, which provides low-cost mental Attorney General William Lockyer. His firm, Girardi & Keese, was health services. She was previously the director of the Cancer Legal named among the Top Southern California Law Firms by the Los Resource Center on the Loyola Law School campus. Angeles Daily Journal. 1988 Richard M. Gee was admitted to the Colorado Bar and has a 1973 Robert R. Anderson was named director of the Justice position as managing attorney for the Denver office of Praxis, LLP. Department’s legal affairs division. Carol Schatz, president and chief Steven G. Kaplan formed Gersh Kaplan, LLP. Several of his films, includ- executive of Los Angeles’s Central City Association, was profiled by the ing Red, White, Black & Blue and Big Bad Wolf will soon be released. Los Angeles Business Journal. She is the first woman to head the 82- Kevin McDonnell was appointed executive vice president and chief year-old organization. financial officer of Leiner Health Products, Inc. 1974 Gloria Allred’s firm, Allred Maroko & Goldberg, was named 1990 Christine A. Nixon was named senior vice president and general among the Top Southern California Law Firms by the Los Angeles Daily counsel of AIG Retirement Services, Inc. Journal. Gary M. Paul, of counsel at Waters & Kraus, was elected parliamentarian for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. 1991 Joseph Brajevich, formerly a deputy city attorney, was named assistant general counsel to the Department of Water & Power. 1976 Alfred Jenkins was honored by the State Bar of California at its annual conference for his significant impact in furthering diversity in 1992 Joel Liberson received the 2006 President’s Pro Bono Award the legal profession. from the California State Bar in recognition of his firm’s work against homelessness. 1977 J. Michael Dwyer, partner at Dwyer & Miller, LLP, was elected treasurer of the Multnomah Bar Association Board. Lawrence E. Leone, 1993 Arif Alikhan was named deputy mayor of homeland security a partner with Trope and Trope, LLP, was appointed for the third time and public safety in LA. John M. Leverett became a shareholder of as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and is a director Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh of Irvine.